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This mural was created by Brenda Ramos, senior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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This mural was created by Renee Rivas, junior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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This mural was created by Arthur Salcedo, senior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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Edgar Garcia grew up in Lincoln Heights near the Main Street bridge, appreciating the bridges and the river underneath them since he was a kid. As the Preservation Planner for the Los Angeles Bridges, he recognizes the importance to renovate...
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By Amanda Gonzalez As KCET project producers meeting Ed Reyes was a real treat. The interview was very interesting and very inspiring; Reyes spoke of change and his process of becoming a politician. His reply, "I was disillusioned," when he...
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The dancing horses are a part of Richland Farms. Horses in the area are not only used for riding or agricultural work, but often are used for dancing. Training the horses takes a long time and a resident of...
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Martina Orosco is a resident of Richland Farms who has a small farm-like setting in her backyard. She has cows, goats, chickens and calves. She loves her farm because it reminds her of the place she grew up in...
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By Angeles Urban Mr. Long is the campus security at Washington Elementary School in Compton, and he is the person responsible for the new garden that Washington Elementary now has. The garden is maintained by his students in his after...
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By Mariela Bautista Today the Departures class headed out to Richland Farms to get a couple of interviews. This day was particularly hot and sunny. We went to a very congested corner in Richland Farms in a strip mall. We...
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By Joanne Choy: Chinatown Service Center (CSC) is a non-profit organization that serves people who live in Chinatown. The organization focuses on health, employment, housing, and youth services. I am closly connected to CSC as I am a member of...
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By Annie Kim: Castelar Elementary School is the only public elemenatary school in the Chinatown area. It is located on College Street, next to Alpine Park. The school is painted red and pink with murals located on the walls. I...
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Departures: Chinatown Student Producers share the story of how their families got to Chinatown.
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Students from Environmental Charter High School come to Richland Farms in Compton to learn and document its urban agricultural practices.
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Departures' Youth Voices workshops are flexible in nature. The curriculum caters to the needs and scope of each installment as well as the amount of time any given classroom can offer to the project. We have worked in a variety...
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After students draw personal maps of their neighborhoods, they then join hands and develop a digital interactive map using Google Maps. All of their locations get re-purposed onto this collaborative map which shows all of their personal places collectively....
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Maps drawn from memory can sometimes prove more illuminating than the work of an official cartographer. Just take a look at these hand-drawn maps by students at Venice High School.
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For several weeks, students went out into their community to capture their personal hotspots from their maps. They interviewed family members, store owners, themselves, and even random people off the street. It has been an amazing experience to see...
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This week, the Venice High School students began to record their hotspots for their My Neighborhood & Me project. Everything has come to this moment. Students now know the various multimedia production tools - photography, cinematography, interview techniques, and sound...
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One of the most unique and engaging elements of a Departures installment is the production of the interactive panoramas. While photographing the significant people and places, the Departures team manipulates and composites the images to represent a visual interpretation of...
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The Departures Youth Voices team of educators and student producers went out to SPARC for the second day of production. SPARC stands for The Social and Public Art Resource Center and is an amazing place that restores and produces public...
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After weeks of teaching students at Venice High School the various media production tools, we went out on our first production day and visited the historic Venice Boardwalk. Even though not all the students are from the Venice area, they...
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Once the brainstorming process completes, the pens, paper, and maps are put away, and it's time to go out and capture the people and places around the neighborhood. It's time for students to look at where the process has...
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Workshop #1: Intro to Departures Description: Students producers are introduced to the Departures series, what defines transmedia, the role of media-literacy in our contemporary society, and how media tools can be used to critically examine our communities. As a representation...
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The exploration of sound often gets overlooked in multimedia production, especially in K-12 education. The emphasis on visual representation often overshadows sonic literacy. Perhaps this is due to the world of graphic design and cinematography involving such complex concepts like...
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video platform video management video solutions video player Student producers at the Chinatown Service Center's Youth Council did some video self-interviews this week as a warm-up for production. We covered the basics of composition, location scouting, and sound, and also...
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KCET Departures takes a look at Chinatown as a hometown, rather than just another tourist destination.
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The second multimedia production workshop at Venice High School covered video interviews and portraits.
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Students at Venice High School's New Media Academy have focused on learning various multimedia production tools in preparing them to become Student Producers for Departures: Venice.
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• My Neighborhood & Me Overview • Computer Basics & Digital Research Tools • Students Create "Meet Me" Project • Show & Tell - Students present their "Meet Me" Projects...
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• Intro to Mapping • Personal Maps Activity (part of Neighborhood & Me Assignment prompt) • Next Class: Students present their own maps of their neighborhoods and identify locations that are meaningful to them....
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This mural was created by Brenda Ramos, senior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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This mural was created by Renee Rivas, junior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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This mural was created by Arthur Salcedo, senior at LA Leadership Academy. It is the final assignment for the Departures LA River Project. Click below to view the mural....
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Edgar Garcia grew up in Lincoln Heights near the Main Street bridge, appreciating the bridges and the river underneath them since he was a kid. As the Preservation Planner for the Los Angeles Bridges, he recognizes the importance to renovate...
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By Amanda Gonzalez As KCET project producers meeting Ed Reyes was a real treat. The interview was very interesting and very inspiring; Reyes spoke of change and his process of becoming a politician. His reply, "I was disillusioned," when he...
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The dancing horses are a part of Richland Farms. Horses in the area are not only used for riding or agricultural work, but often are used for dancing. Training the horses takes a long time and a resident of...
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Martina Orosco is a resident of Richland Farms who has a small farm-like setting in her backyard. She has cows, goats, chickens and calves. She loves her farm because it reminds her of the place she grew up in...
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By Angeles Urban Mr. Long is the campus security at Washington Elementary School in Compton, and he is the person responsible for the new garden that Washington Elementary now has. The garden is maintained by his students in his after...
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By Mariela Bautista Today the Departures class headed out to Richland Farms to get a couple of interviews. This day was particularly hot and sunny. We went to a very congested corner in Richland Farms in a strip mall. We...
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By Joanne Choy: Chinatown Service Center (CSC) is a non-profit organization that serves people who live in Chinatown. The organization focuses on health, employment, housing, and youth services. I am closly connected to CSC as I am a member of...
